The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) has called a meeting of all its party legislators in Mumbai to decide on the further course of action following the demise of its chief and Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister (CM) Ajit Pawar in a tragic air crash on Wednesday. According to party leaders, NCP will elect its legislative leader and also propose the name of Pawar’s wife, Sunetra, as the new leader, and urge her to take responsibility as Maharashtra’s Deputy CM.

She would be the first woman to hold the post in the state.